Microsoft is ready to move ahead with its delayed $200 million data center project in West Des Moines, Iowa. The project was first announced back in the summer of 2008 but halted when Microsoft trimmed capital spending.
A series of new videos from the Microsoft Global Foundation Services team provides an overview of how the company's data center designs have evolved over three projects in two years.
Microsoft has selected a site near Boydton, Virginia for a major new data center project, with plans to invest up to $499 million in the rural community in the southern part of the state. The company plans to build a cutting-edge data center that...
Robert Scoble provides a look inside a Microsoft container packed with more than five petabytes of data to support the Bing Maps application. Some serious eye candy here.
One of last week's hot topics in the data center business was Microsoft's announcement of its Windows Azure platform appliance. Here's a review of some of the analysis and commentary.
i/o Data Centers appoints Jon Mauck as its new CFO, HP and Microsoft partner on Azure appliance, Phoenix NAp and Datalink to partner on disaster recovery.
The North Carolina legislature is preparing a new round of data center tax incentives, while Microsoft is reportedly considering a site in Alamance County.
Microsoft, TeleCityGroup and LAMDA Hellix Data Centers were among the companies cited for their innovation at the 6th Data Centres Europe Awards event held June 24 in Sophia Antipolis, France.
It's official. Iowa Gov. Chet Culver officially confirmed that Microsoft will move forward with the construction of a $100 million data center in West Des Moines.